Quotes About Behavior

The newly rich lost their balance and their stolidity, becoming as giddy and frivolous and aggressive as the worst.

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

peccadillo. So far as my observation goes, men

for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by

for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by a

he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

Chris explained. Beginning on the day after Regan's birthday—and following Howard's failure to call—she had noticed a sudden and dramatic change in her daughter's behavior and disposition. Insomnia. Quarrelsome. Fits of temper. Kicked things. Threw things. Screamed. Wouldn't eat. In addition, her energy seemed abnormal. She was constantly moving, touching, turning

have the syndrome, Mrs. MacNeil. For example, the untidiness; the pugnacity; behavior that's socially embarrassing; the automatism; and of course, the seizures that made the bed shake. Usually, that's followed by either wetting the bed or vomiting, or both,

One of the things that price consultants have learned is that what consumers say and what they do are not the same thing.

Many people like myself who teach marketing start the course by saying, 'We're not about manipulating consumers, we're about discovering needs and meeting them,' " said Eric Johnson of Columbia University. "And then, if you're in the field awhile, you realize, yes, we can manipulate consumers.

Flipping the gains to losses flips the types of behavior. When losses are likely, reckless gambles become acceptable (lower left cell).

The trouble is, these four domains of behavior coexist in all of us. A person who is risk-averse in one situation will turn reckless in another. All it takes is a changed reference point.

It was like pulling the strings on a marionette. Huber and Puto found they could make the students want one beer or the other, just by adding a third choice that few or no one wanted.

The middle class child says a rock is a stone; a lower class child says a rock is hard, and you throw it.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

Pills and Skills Model, Instead of asking your doctor what can I take, ask your doctor what can I do.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.

Report of fashions in proud Italy,Whose manners still our tardy apish nationLimps after in base imitation.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.